College at Durham Uni - I was in College Bar Committee , unfortunately the people in the Committee prior to me had access to many many cases, I just got the last few bottle of vintage port! Still now back in the fold after a couple of decades of wilderness years. During which I had some nice Aussie SA posts whenl lived down-under, surprising good vintage, Port was not very popular downunder, the occasional cellar find was very nice! Lived on SA Australian Vintage Port and Tasmanian Blue Cheese for many a year, before returning to UK, but now back to Portuguese Port and English Stilton lifestyle when possible.

Was one of the College bars at Durham, I paid for the port many many years ago. At the time I managed to get the last few bottles back in the 1990s, as the previous years of students had purchased majority of stocks before I was there. But that was decades ago. Now appreciating port again and looking for some more vintage from the 1970ies.

Please do feel free to invite yourself along to one of our London port evenings. All are open for anyone to join unless we have 14 people already attending, inwhich case a waiting list will be opened.

Or if you are in London and free for an evening then please feel free to start a thread in the Oganising Tastings section and see whether anyone else is free to join you - two TPF members makes a quorum!

The general principle is that if you come to a tasting then you contribute a bottle (either in the form of a bottle or the form of buying a bottle from someone else) and pay around £40 towards the cost of your meal, glasses, room hire and tip. (If you don't eat then it's about £10 towards the shared costs.)